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Topic Tuesday//BOTH FORUMS// Creative expression and our wellbeing! // Tues 28 July 7- 8 30pm AEST featuring Special Guest Artists from the DAX Centre

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Topic Tuesday//BOTH FORUMS// Creative expression and our wellbeing! // Tues 28 July 7- 8 30pm AEST featuring Special Guest Artists from the DAX Centre

We would like to invite members from both Lived Experience and Friends, Family and Carers Forums to join our Topic Tuesday this month!

We are very excited to have two special guest artists from the DAX Centre coming to our Topic Tuesday this month. We will be discussing a range of topics on all things art and creative expression, as well as covering some tips on how we can apply creative expression to our daily lives! ✨

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I'm new here - what is Topic Tuesday?

Topic Tuesday runs from 7pm - 8:30pm AEST monthly. Each month we focus on a different topic, with the session facilitated by a Community Manager or Moderator. Sometimes Topic Tuesday will feature a special guest, who is an expert in the topic.

The first post of the thread (this one) will give you an idea of what the topic is and what will be covered.

How do I get involved?

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Throughout the session, the facilitator will put questions out for you to answer, usually asking for your own experience on the topic. To contribute to the session, just hit the 'reply' button and share your thoughts. No answers are right or wrong and everyone is welcome to get involved.

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RenegadeContributor

Re: Topic Tuesday//BOTH FORUMS// Creative expression and our wellbeing! // Tues 28 July 7- 8 30pm AEST featuring Special Guest Artist from the DAX Cen

@Shaz51 me too!

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Re: Topic Tuesday//BOTH FORUMS// Creative expression and our wellbeing! // Tues 28 July 7- 8 30pm AEST featuring Special Guest Artist from the DAX Cen

I do a lot of photos and digital editing, have huge image collection in my phone

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Re: Topic Tuesday//BOTH FORUMS// Creative expression and our wellbeing! // Tues 28 July 7- 8 30pm AEST featuring Special Guest Artist from the DAX Cen

Now that we've started to think about creativity and know that being creative can be about engaging in a process of allowing your mind and body to “tumble out” into the world.

So, how can our individual art practices/ engagement in creative expression per say, connect to or impact on our mental health wellbeing?

For me personally, I try to ‘do’ art and engage in creative expression (now that I think about it) a lot! For me doing art/ painting is a really therapeutic process. It helps me to release any tensions/ stress I was feeling and express it on the painting.

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outlanderSenior Contributor

Re: Topic Tuesday//BOTH FORUMS// Creative expression and our wellbeing! // Tues 28 July 7- 8 30pm AEST featuring Special Guest Artists from the DAX Ce

hi everyone!
thanks for the shoutout @Former-Member

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RenegadeContributor

Re: Topic Tuesday//BOTH FORUMS// Creative expression and our wellbeing! // Tues 28 July 7- 8 30pm AEST featuring Special Guest Artist from the DAX Cen

Conscious dance encourages you to follow your body and the way it needs to move, rather than follows steps or choreography.

This means its a very personal way of giving the body physical expression, which looks and feels completely different for every person on any given day.

It requires letting go of the ‘doing’ mind, and turning your attention onto your body. So often we get caught up in what we’re thinking that we forget that the body is carrying us around all day and experiencing all of the same things that the mind is. How well we’re feeling has just as much to do with how the body energetically experiences and holds onto what we do/feel/think in a day as it does the mind.

You will be doing your body an incredible favour by allowing it do dance, however it wants to. It releases the energy that the body is holding and liberates the mind into play, joy and the range of emotions music provokes.

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Re: Topic Tuesday//BOTH FORUMS// Creative expression and our wellbeing! // Tues 28 July 7- 8 30pm AEST featuring Special Guest Artists from the DAX Ce

Welcome @outlander ! 😄

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outlanderSenior Contributor

Re: Topic Tuesday//BOTH FORUMS// Creative expression and our wellbeing! // Tues 28 July 7- 8 30pm AEST featuring Special Guest Artist from the DAX Cen

thank you for joining us @Renegade and @paintingallday

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paintingalldayContributor

Re: Topic Tuesday//BOTH FORUMS// Creative expression and our wellbeing! // Tues 28 July 7- 8 30pm AEST featuring Special Guest Artist from the DAX Cen

@Former-Member i also have a huge collection of images on my phone! It's so fun to go scrolling back through and discover things/work/inspo i'd forgotten about! Like a digital creative treasure trove 🤗

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MariposaNew Contributor

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self expression
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